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Viper wine was popular cure - soaking and killing live vipers in wine and then letting people drink it.
— Dec 09, 2025 10:53PM
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Elizabeth Blackwell’s A curious herbal glorified the scientific approach to medication, promoted its connection with physicians and apothecaries and denigrated women as meditators.
After the black plague apothecaries started giving remedy advice and advising, not just selling the herbs.
— Dec 09, 2025 10:52PM
After the black plague apothecaries started giving remedy advice and advising, not just selling the herbs.
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domestic medicine garden female space; professional physic garden male space
scientific revolution
Kenelms and Venetia Digby married - he was a professional physic and she a domestic female that has receipes for medicine making. 1740
By 1740 medicine had been disentangled from food and associated with men
— Dec 09, 2025 10:49PM
scientific revolution
Kenelms and Venetia Digby married - he was a professional physic and she a domestic female that has receipes for medicine making. 1740
By 1740 medicine had been disentangled from food and associated with men
